The disastrous fire of 1876 destroyed downtown Chester. To protect the village from future fires, the citizens of Chester under took to build both a water system and a fire company. This advertisement was sent to Joseph Durland, a founding member...
Maps show land ownership, schools, bodies of water, churches, cemeteries, railroads, businesses and land divisions. Rosendale includes: Binnewater, Bruceville, Creeklocks, Hickory Bush, High Falls, Lawrenceville, Lefever Falls and Whiteport.
Top left caption reads: E.M. Brigham's quarries at Creek Locks. Top right caption reads: Residence of E.M. Brigham, Union Avenue, Kingston, N.Y. Bottom caption reads: Hudson River Cement works, East Kingston, New York on the Hudson, E.M. Brigham,...
This is an advertisement for N. K. Weed and Wm. D. Bagshaw's builders' hardware business which was located at 100 Broadway near Liberty Street in Newburgh, N.Y. It notes that they furnished "artistic hardware with good locks," house furnishing...